smörja
Swedish
noun
Definitions
- crap, bullshit; something of very low quality or truthfulness
- (colloquial) goo; any kind of partially liquid substance
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish smyria inherited from Old Norse smyrja inherited from Proto-Germanic *smirwijaną, *smerwą (grease, butter, fat).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*smerwą
Gloss
grease, butter, fat
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
脂
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- smeer Dutch, Flemish
- *smérus Proto-Indo-European
- smøre Norwegian Bokmål
- *smerwą Proto-Germanic
- *smirwijaną Proto-Germanic
- smörjning Swedish
- smerian Old English
- smjǫr Old Norse
- smyrja Old Norse
- smyrva Old Norse
- smero Old High German
- smirwen Old High German
- 𐍃𐌼𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐍂 Gothic
- *smeru gmw-pro
- *smirwen Old Dutch
- smyria Old Swedish
- smöri Westrobothnian